Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Woot! Installed folding this morning. Got some sleep. Watched a movie (V for Vendetta; Netflix got it here a day late). And now I am in 276th place! Off to a good start. My PS3 wasn't even churning while I watched the movie.

Maybe I can talk my father-in-law into joining our team. He doesn't know what a Linux is, but I bought him his PS3 for Christmas, so he kinda owes me.

Maybe I'll look later into rolling back my NVIDIA drivers so the GPU Client might possibly work. I have two 8800GT's and an 8600GS that don't do much other than allow me to watch the occasional movie. The GPU client crashes with a quickness with 190 nvidia drivers, and I understood it had problems with 185, but I imagine I could find a 180 copy somewhere and give it a try. I figure that I might as well make sure my overclocked rig doesn't blow up just using my quad core though first. It's spent many a day crunching Pi at 3.8 Ghz and survived the summer though, so it should be straight.

Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

yeah anyone can join (just check the wiki for instructions if you need), and would be happily welcomed i'm sure and it doesn't seem to use much bandwidth from what I can tell Only needs to use the net to get a job, and then to send the results, which only happens every few (at best) hours...

Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

There seems to be something wrong somewhere, my points ain't registered at the tracking websites.

cat /etc/conf.d/foldingathome
#
# Optional user settings for foldingathome daemon
#
# If you prefer not to run fah as root then you can identifer a current or
# specially created user here.
FAH_USER="fah"
# If you wish to associate this user with a specific group you can enter the
# group name here. If left blank the default is "users".
FAH_GRP=""

Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

Yay! In celebration of my becoming last of the top 25, I will ask a question.

Background Info: My performance has been off for a month or so, because I had to take down my computer for repairs. CPU fan needed replacing. It is why I previously had some heat issues. The PS3 churned out packets while the PC was away, hence my temoprary dip in numbers. My computer is back up and looking good, but I am occassionally encountering a new error that I have never seen before.

I glanced back a few days through the logs. Sometimes it kills more, sometimes less. It always kills a number of folding processes, and tends to kill thunderbird all the time. The last thing to need killing always seems to be a Fah process.

I've only caught my memory usage redline one time while I was at the computer (and it was fixed by stoping Fah manually, since I saw what was eating the memory in top). Normally (like now for example), my memory usage is under 10%. Also, I have 12GB of RAM.

I do not see anything strange at the corresponding times in myfah.log. I don't see anything too strange there at all, aside from some warnings that make me question if it is having trouble sending completed units reliables (although it appears that they always sooner or later are processed, and my numbers are going up).

Any advice would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Lewis

p.s. I tried fah-gpu again after I got my comp thrown back together. Is it still just broke with a newer video drivers? When I try it with 190 or 195-beta, I get unstable machine. It seems if I want to roll back and try it with 180, my system wants me to downgrade my kernel and binutils and all sorts of craziness.

Re: F@H Arch Linux Team - Recruitment & Stats thread - HELP US !.

It probably wasn't related to the kernel. That does happen occasionally. Things will be running fine, then Stanford will introduce a new work unit. Often, they have to play around for a while and get the parameters set just right. I'm currently having problems with Project 2665 on the SMP client. Given time, the problems will go away.